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...extension. Its characters never appeared on '70s, but it promises the same kind of pop-reference-intensive humor, this time with Miami Vice jackets, wine coolers and Rubik's Cubes. "The timing just fell together," says co-creator Linda Wallem. "All the radio stations were doing '80s at Noon. MTV had just celebrated its big [20th] anniversary." She and her '70s colleagues Mark Brazill and Terry Turner decided to build '80s around struggling musician and record-store clerk Corey (Glenn Howerton), just out of college and out of place in the success-oriented America...
...antenna, there are 100 XM channels; about a third are commercial free. These stations are transmitted from satellites in geosynchronous orbit, so in theory you could listen to the same station from Seattle to Miami. While the XM offerings include radio versions of network fare like CNBC, ESPN and MTV, there are dozens of original music stations created by XM's staff...
Daly, who has a nonexclusive contract with MTV, came to NBC after a development deal with CBS fell apart when he failed to come up with a show that the network liked. He also turned down a prime-time variety show for ABC, feeling it was too similar to TRL. Believing that the standard monologue-sketch-interview format for late-night shows has grown stale, he says he accepted the three-year contract with the hope that, over time, he can come up with something different. "I look at it as a testing ground for the future of late night...
...Daly was 13 and in Hawaii with his family. Kimmel was there on a high school-graduation vacation. Kimmel became friends with the Dalys and scored Carson his first few radio-deejay jobs. They eventually worked together at L.A.'s alternative-rock station KROCK, which led to Daly's MTV job. For the short time he was at the station, when he was one of the first people to play shock rocker Marilyn Manson, guys actually thought Daly was cool. He says the experience makes being a Tiger Beat pinup more palatable. "I've already been in that too-cool...
...career and an entertainment empire, generously gave the younger man some tips and ideas. "New Year's Eve," Daly says, "would be the type of thing I'd like to develop." Of course, Clark isn't exactly ready to be replaced. Daly already does New Year's Eve for MTV, and, says Clark with a chuckle, "we crushed...